JP2013019062A - Flat-knitting machine comprising stitch-holding bar and knitting method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flat knitting machine comprising stitch-holding bars, capable of preventing, when the stitch-holding bars are operated, breakage of stitches held at operation side ends, and to provide a knitting method using the same.SOLUTION: As shown in (c), following the knitting of a stitch on an end knitting needle 1a of a front needle bed, one independent stitch is knitted on a knitting needle 2b for knitting one stitch of a rear needle bed, and the stitches are connected by a cross-over yarn 8a. As shown in (e), when stitch-holding bars 6 and 7 are operated from left, the stitch held on the end knitting needle 1a and a stitch held on an end knitting needle 2a on the operation side are stretched and increased in load acting thereon. However, a knitting yarn is fed to the stitch held on the end knitting needle 1a from the independent stitch, so that the load is relieved. The stitch held on the end knitting needle 2a of the rear needle bed is connected to a stitch which is a loop formed earlier than the stitch held on the end knitting needle 1a, so that the load is also relieved.

Description

  The present invention relates to a flat knitting machine for knitting a knitted fabric having a plurality of finger bags, a flat knitting machine provided with a stitch restraining bar that enables crotch piling between the finger bags, and knitting using the flat knitting machine Regarding the method.

  Conventionally, in a flat knitting machine having a needle bed at the front and rear, the yarn feeding direction for supplying the knitting yarn to the knitting needle is reciprocated, and the yarn is fed in one direction for the knitting needle on the front needle bed and in the other direction on the knitting needle on the rear needle bed. Gloves and socks are knitted as a tubular knitted fabric in which both ends of the knitting width are connected by circular knitting. In gloves and socks, stitch restraining rivets are used to individually knitting finger bags into which fingers are to be inserted and to allow the crotch of the finger crotch between the finger bags (see, for example, Patent Document 1). As knitting, knitting by pile knitting using pile yarn and ground yarn as knitting yarn is also performed (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

  FIG. 4 schematically shows the knitting state of the finger crotch. Finger bags 3, 4, and 5 are sequentially knitted with the knitting needle 1 on the front needle bed and the knitting needle 2 on the rear needle bed facing each other. For example, when the finger bag 4 is knitted from the fingertip 4a and knitted, the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 are inserted from the left to provide the crotch overlap section 4b at the finger crotch with the finger bag 5 to be knitted next. The The knitting needles 1 and 2 of the front and back needle beds guided by the yarn restraining grooves 6a and 7a provided in the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 are restrained by the yarn restraining grooves 6a and 7a. The hook can be advanced and retracted to the tooth opening, and a new stitch independent from the fastened stitch can be knitted. The knitting needles 1 and 2 in the crotch overlap section 4 b can also be used for the next knitting of the finger bag 5.

Japanese Patent Publication No. 61-32420 Japanese Patent Publication No. 60-59333

  As shown in FIG. 4, when the stitches of the crotch overlap section 4b previously knitted are restrained by applying the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7, the stitches to be restrained are stretched, particularly on the side where the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 are inserted. A large load is applied to the stitches locked by the end knitting needles. The stitch in the crotch section 4b of the finger bag 4 that has been knitted previously remains in a state of being restrained by the suppression grooves 6a and 7a, and the needle stem advances and retreats many times when the finger bag 5 is knitted. In particular, when performing pile knitting, if a cotton thread that does not stretch easily is used as the ground yarn that functions as a tightening yarn, the stitches locked by the end knitting needles may be further stretched, and the needle stem may be easily cut due to repeated advance and retreat .

  An object of the present invention is to provide a flat knitting machine provided with a stitch restraining rod and a knitting method thereof that can make it difficult to cut a stitch locked at an end portion on the working side when the stitch restraining rod is applied. That is.

The present invention has a pair of front and back needle beds, and includes a stitch restraining bar that allows the formation of new independent stitches by suppressing the stitches that act on the knitting needles of each needle bed and are locked to the knitting needles, In a flat knitting machine equipped with a stitch restraining bar that can be knitted with pile knitting while forming a crotch overlap section on the finger crotch between the finger bags,
The needle selection mechanism for selecting the knitting needles used for knitting
Corresponding to the crotch overlap section, the crotch overlap portion set to select the same knitting needle in the finger bag knitted first and the finger bag knitted later,
Of the stitch rows of the final course of the crotch overlap portion of the finger bag to be knitted first, an independent first stitch following the stitches with respect to the end knitting needles knitting the stitches at the ends on the working side of the stitch deterrent rod Including a single stitch knitting portion set to select a single stitch knitting needle for knitting a stitch,
This is a flat knitting machine provided with a stitch restraining rod characterized by this.

The present invention further includes a stitch restraining rod having a pair of front and back needle beds, which acts on the knitting needles of each needle bed and suppresses the stitches locked to the knitting needles, thereby enabling the formation of new independent stitches. In the knitting method of a flat knitting machine comprising a stitch restraining rod, a plurality of finger bags can be knitted while each finger bag is knitted from a fingertip and a crotch overlap section is formed between the finger bags.
Knit the fabric with pile knitting that uses pile yarn together with the ground yarn,
In the crotch lap section, in the knitting row of the last course of the crotch lap section of the finger pouch that is knitted first, the end knitting needle knitting the end stitch on the working side of the stitch depressing bar is independent of the stitch. The first stitch
In the case of using the front as a product in a state where the pile of the knitted fabric is formed inside, knitting at the position where the fingertips of the finger bags to be knitted do not overlap,
In the case of reverse use as a product by turning it over so that the pile of the knitted fabric is on the outside, knitting at the position on the finger bag side to be knitted later,
This is a knitting method of a flat knitting machine provided with a stitch restraining rod.

  According to the present invention, after the knitting of the stitch that is locked to the end knitting needle on the working side of the stitch depressing rod with the finger bag that is knitted first at the finger crotch between the finger bags, the independent first stitch following the stitch Organize. The independent first stitch reduces the load when a load is applied to the stitches locked to the end knitting needles by the action of the stitch restraining rod, so that the stitches can be made difficult to break.

  Furthermore, according to the present invention, the knitted fabric is formed by pile knitting, and after the knitting, the front stitch that keeps the pile as it is inside, and the stitch that is turned over and flipped out to the outside, the stitches locked with the end knitting needles The position of the subsequent independent first stitch is set based on different standards. In frontal use, the position of the first stitch is shifted to the vicinity of the center of the knitting width of the finger bag, and the end yarn that goes out of the knitting width from the stitch becomes easy to enter the finger bag. In reverse use, since the position of the first stitch is on the side of the finger bag to be knitted later, near the end of the knitting width of the previously knitted finger bag, the end yarn that goes out of the knitting width from that stitch is It becomes difficult to enter the finger bag. The end yarn that enters the finger bag during knitting will come out if it is turned over after knitting. However, in the case of reverse use, it is difficult to put the end yarn into the finger bag and the end yarn is still knitted even if turned over after knitting. It can be made difficult to appear on the surface.

FIG. 1 is a knitting diagram showing a schematic procedure of a knitting method of a knitted fabric as one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a partial needle selection state of the needle selection drums 11 and 12 for executing the knitting procedure of FIG. 1 as a table knitting on a flat knitting machine 10 having a stitch restraining rod. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a partial needle selection state of the needle selection drums 11 and 12 for executing the knitting procedure of FIG. 1 as a reverse use on a flat knitting machine 10 having a stitch restraining rod. FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically illustrating a state in which the finger crotch is knitted using the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7.

  Hereinafter, a knitting procedure of a knitted fabric by pile knitting will be schematically described as an embodiment of the present invention with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 shows a setting state of the needle selection drums 11 and 12 when using a table. FIG. 3 shows a setting state of the needle selection drums 11 and 12 in the reverse use. In the description of each figure, the same reference numerals are used for the parts corresponding to the parts shown in the above-described figures, or the parts that are not shown in the drawings and are described in the figures described above. In some cases, duplicate descriptions may be omitted.

  FIG. 1 shows a flat knitting machine having a front needle bed (hereinafter abbreviated as FB) and a rear needle bed (hereinafter abbreviated as BB) as a pair of front and back needle beds and stitch stitch barbs 6 and 7. When knitting gloves and socks including a plurality of finger bags 3, 4 and 5 by pile knitting, a procedure of knitting while forming a crotch overlap section 4b on the finger crotch between the finger bags 4 and 5 is shown. For knitting, cotton yarn is used for both the ground yarn that becomes the fastening yarn and the pile yarn that forms the pile. During knitting of the finger pouch, the reciprocating range of the carriage is limited to the vicinity of the knitting region of the finger pouch, and the reciprocating stroke is shortened. The finger bag is knitted from the fingertip, and when knitting to the final course, the knitting yarn is drawn out of the knitting width and cut. Of the knitting yarn drawn from the stitches at the end of the final course, the portion remaining after cutting becomes the end yarn.

  In FIG. 1 (a), a knitting yarn 8 composed of a ground yarn and a pile yarn is fed to the knitting needle 2 of the BB in the direction from left to right. In FIG. 1 (b), the knitting needle 1 of the FB is knitted from the right to the left. A state is shown in which the yarn 8 is fed and the final course of the finger pouch is knitted by circular knitting. A circle indicates a knitting needle, and a knitting needle on which a new stitch is formed is hatched. The stitch locked by the end knitting needle 2a at the left end of the knitting needle 2 is connected to the stitch locked by the end knitting needle 1a of the FB in the course preceding (a). The stitches locked by the end knitting needles 1a are knocked over when a new stitch is formed on the end knitting needles 1a in (b) and become an old loop.

  In this embodiment, following the stitch formation with the end knitting needle 1a, as shown in FIG. 1C, the yarn feeder 9 is moved from the left to the right to feed the knitting yarn 8 to the knitting stitch needle 2b of the BB. Yarn and form an independent first stitch. Next, as shown in (d), the yarn feeder 9 is put out to the left outside the knitting width in an empty course in which the yarn feeder 9 is simply moved from right to left. The stitches locked by the end knitting needle 1a and the stitches locked by the first stitch knitting needle 2b are connected by a crossover yarn 8a. The knitting yarn 8 that continues from the stitch that is locked by the first knitting knitting needle 2b to the yarn feeder 9 becomes the end yarn 8b after cutting.

  As shown in FIG. 1 (e), when the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 are acted from the left side, a tension is generated on the stitches locked to the end knitting needles 1a and 2a on the acting side of the FB and BB, resulting in a load. growing. However, the stitches locked by the end knitting needles 1a are connected to the independent stitches locked by the first stitch knitting needles 2b via the transition yarns 8a. When the load on the stitches locked to the end knitting needles 1a increases, the independent stitches locked by the single stitch knitting needles 2b shrink and supply the knitting yarns, so that the increase in load can be mitigated. Further, the old loop of the stitch locked by the end knitting needle 1a is also loosened, and the load on the stitch locked by the end knitting needle 2a connected to the old loop is also reduced.

  FIGS. 1 (f) and (g) show a state in which the next finger pouch is knitted by circular knitting. The stitches restrained by the restraining grooves 6a and 7a of the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 remain on the needle stems of the knitting needles 1 and 2 in which the hooks advance and retreat into the tooth opening. Even in the end knitting needles 1a and 2a that generate tension when the stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 are inserted, since the load on the stitches to be locked is reduced, the knitting yarn 8 can be made difficult to break. Although both the pile yarn and the ground yarn use cotton yarn, the combination can be diversified, and wooly nylon or the like can be used.

  2 is a flat knitting machine 10 having stitch restraining rods 6 and 7 as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 4, and needle selection is performed so as to perform knitting of a finger crotch as shown in FIG. The structure for doing is shown. The flat knitting machine 10 includes a large number of knitting needles 1 and 2 on FB and BB, respectively, and has needle selection drums 11 and 12 which are needle selection mechanisms for selecting the knitting needles 1 and 2 used for knitting. Although the needle selection drums 11 and 12 are arranged separately for FB and BB, for convenience of explanation, the needle selection area is developed and overlapped vertically. In the needle selection areas of the needle selection drums 11 and 12, irregularities are formed by inserting pins, and the irregularities in the rows arranged in the horizontal direction in the figure are reflected in the control jacks of the knitting needles 1 and 2, so that the knitting needles 1 and 2 are knitted. The needle is selected as to whether or not it is subject to the above. The position of the row where needle selection is performed shifts upward in BB and downward in FB. The yarn feeding direction is a right-to-left direction in FB and a left-to-right direction in BB, as indicated by a horizontal arrow. When two finger bags are sequentially knitted, finger bag knitting portions 11A, 12A; 11B, 12B are set corresponding to the respective finger bags. In the finger crotch, the crotch overlap portions 11C and 12C are set so as to select the same knitting needles 1 and 2 between the finger bag knitted first and the finger bag knitted later corresponding to the crotch overlap section 4b. The

  The end knitting needle 1a is selected at the end portion 11a in the row where the needle course of the finger bag knitting portion 11A with respect to the finger bag to be knitted first is selected. Of the stitch row of this final course, the stitch knitted with the end knitting needle 1a is the end on the side on which the stitch restraining bar 6 acts. The independent first stitch following this stitch is knitted by the BB one-knitting knitting needle 2b set in the first stitch knitting portion 12b. The position of this stitch is preferably set near the center of the knitting width of the finger pouch in order to insert the end yarn 8b into the finger pouch, but it is not so far away from the end knitting needle 1a because of yarn erosion. Like that. The first knitted portion 12b is set in a row next to the row including the end portion 12a. In a state where the row where the first knitted portion 12b is set acts on the BB, an empty row next to the row including the end portion 11a acts on the FB.

  In the row where the first stitch knitted portion 12b is set in the finger bag knitting portion 12A, the other first stitch knitted portions 12c and 12d are also set at intervals. The interval between the first knitted portions 12b, 12c, and 12d is kept within a range that does not hinder the yarn biting on the knitting needle 2. After forming the stitch with the knitting needle 2 selected at the first stitch knitting portion 12d at the right end, the knitting yarn 8 is pulled leftward and cut from the yarn feeder 9 to become the end yarn 8b. Since the position of the base point drawn out as the end yarn 8b is closer to the inner side of the knitting width of the finger bag, the end yarn 8b can be easily dropped from the tooth opening into the finger bag. Further, if the mechanism for gripping the end yarn 8b on the left side of the knitting width is difficult to capture if the angle of the end yarn 8b from the knitting needle 2 of the BB is large due to the arrangement, if the base point is moved to the right It is possible to make it easy to capture by reducing the pulling angle. The first knitted portions 12c and 12d have a degree of freedom in the position and the number of stitches. For example, the positions may be shifted by about several stitches, and the first knitted portion 12d may not be provided.

  The position of the first knitted portion 12b is set to a position that does not overlap with the end portion 12e of the first course of the finger bag knitted portion 12B for the finger bag to be knitted next. In the overlapping position, it enters into the yarn suppressing grooves 6a, 7a of the stitch restraining rods 6,7. The position of the independent first stitch is separated to the opposite needle bed side, and when restrained by the yarn suppression grooves 6a and 7a, the load of the stitch locked by the end knitting needle 1a via the transition yarn 8a is alleviated. This is because it becomes difficult.

  FIG. 3 shows a configuration of a needle selection portion for performing finger crotch knitting as a reverse use of pile knitting. The independent first stitch following the stitch knitted at the end portion 11a of the final course of the finger bag knitting portion 11A is set to only the first knitting portion 11b with the row next to the row including the end portion 12a of the BB being emptied. Knitting with a knitting needle selected in a row on the FB side. Here, both the end portion 11a and the first knitted portion 11b are set so as to select the same end knitting needle 1a. In a state in which the row where the first knitting portion 11b is set acts on the FB, an empty row next to the row including the end portion 12a acts on the BB. After the knitting of the stitch, the knitting yarn 8 is drawn leftward to become an end yarn 8b. Since the position of the base point pulled out as the end yarn 8b is close to the side end of the knitting width of the finger bag, it is difficult to drop the end yarn 8b into the finger bag. Moreover, since the first stitch is knitted with the end knitting needle 1a, the burden on the stitches locked by the end knitting needles 1a, 2a when the stitch restraining rods 6, 7 are applied is also close. Easy to do from the location.

1, 2 Knitting needles 1a, 2a End knitting needles 2b One stitch knitting needles 3, 4, 5 Finger bags 4a Fingertips 4b Crotch overlap sections 6, 7 Knitting stitches 6a, 7a Yarn grooves 8 Knitting yarns 8a Transition yarns 8b End yarns 10 Horizontal Knitting machine 11, 12 Needle selection drum 11A, 11B; 12A, 12B Finger bag knitting part 11C, 12C Crotch overlap part 11a, 12a End part 11b, 12b, 12c, 12d

Claims (2)

A plurality of finger bags having a pair of front and back needle beds, and having a stitch deterrent bar that acts on the knitting needles of each needle bed and suppresses the stitches locked to the knitting needles to enable the formation of independent new stitches. In a flat knitting machine equipped with a stitch restraining rod that can be knitted by pile knitting while forming a crotch overlap section on the finger crotch between finger bags,
The needle selection mechanism for selecting the knitting needles used for knitting
Corresponding to the crotch overlap section, the crotch overlap portion set to select the same knitting needle in the finger bag knitted first and the finger bag knitted later,
Of the stitch rows of the final course of the crotch overlap portion of the finger bag to be knitted first, an independent first stitch following the stitches with respect to the end knitting needles knitting the stitches at the ends on the working side of the stitch deterrent rod Including a single stitch knitting portion set to select a single stitch knitting needle for knitting a stitch,
A flat knitting machine provided with a stitch restraining rod characterized by that. A plurality of finger bags having a pair of front and back needle beds, and having a stitch deterrent bar that acts on the knitting needles of each needle bed and suppresses the stitches locked to the knitting needles to enable the formation of independent new stitches. In the knitting method of the flat knitting machine provided with a stitch restraining rod, each finger bag can be knitted while knitting from the fingertip and forming a crotch overlap section between the finger bags.
Knit the fabric with pile knitting that uses pile yarn together with the ground yarn,
In the crotch lap section, in the knitting row of the last course of the crotch lap section of the finger pouch that is knitted first, the end knitting needle knitting the end stitch on the working side of the stitch depressing bar is independent of the stitch. The first stitch
In the case of using the front as a product in a state where the pile of the knitted fabric is formed inside, knitting at the position where the fingertips of the finger bags to be knitted do not overlap,
In the case of reverse use as a product by turning it over so that the pile of the knitted fabric is on the outside, knitting at the position on the finger bag side to be knitted later,
A knitting method for a flat knitting machine comprising a stitch restraining rod.

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